[Broker15015]

Hi Clare, Don't know what keeps them away but food left about in the house can attract them, I think that houses that get infested need specialist treatment by a company, the beasties hide in voids and behind cupboards and come out at night( this is not personal experience), I believe that you need some very toxic sprays to destroy them. Have read that after a nuclear strike it would be cockroaches and scorpion that would be the survivors

Kev

[preptarra]

We have family in a little village outside Valencia. The nearest town, Picassent was fitted out with a new sewage system a few years ago, & the houses there have been affected ever since. If you have them the chances are, all your neighbourhood will end up with them. The advice re food is sound. If you discourage them this way, the chances are you won't suffer too badly. The other attraction for them is warmth. They are more comfy in a nice warm house in February than scuttling about in the cold. The sprays are effective if you can leave rooms sealed for a time, but the trouble is that the eggs in their protective sacks are immune, so you need a second going over a few days after the first.
They are horrible things, & they seem so big in Spain.

[amotoustict]

We where told that putting a few moth balls in the plug hole deters the little critters